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Eicon Networks Corporation is a privately owned designer, developer and manufacturer of communication products founded in 1984 with headquarters
Headquarters

Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are concentrated. The corporate headquarters is the entity at the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities....
 in Montreal, Canada. Eicon products are sold worldwide through a large network of distributors and resellers, and supplied to OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer

OEM stands for "Original Equipment Manufacturer".An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM is typically a company that uses a component made by a second company in its own product, or sells the product of the second company under its own brand....
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In October 2006 Eicon purchased the Media & Signalling Division of Intel, known as Dialogic before its purchase by Intel in 1999, which produces telephony boards for PC servers.






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Eicon Networks Corporation is a privately owned designer, developer and manufacturer of communication products founded in 1984 with headquarters
Headquarters

Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are concentrated. The corporate headquarters is the entity at the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities....
 in Montreal, Canada. Eicon products are sold worldwide through a large network of distributors and resellers, and supplied to OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer

OEM stands for "Original Equipment Manufacturer".An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM is typically a company that uses a component made by a second company in its own product, or sells the product of the second company under its own brand....
s.

In October 2006 Eicon purchased the Media & Signalling Division of Intel, known as Dialogic before its purchase by Intel in 1999, which produces telephony boards for PC servers. The combined Eicon/Dialogic company changed its name to Dialogic Corporation
Dialogic Corporation

Dialogic Corporation is a privately owned designer, developer and manufacturer of communication products founded in 1984 with headquarters in Montreal, Canada....
 at the time of the purchase.

Products

Eicon's products include the Diva Family (Diva Server and Diva Client) and Eiconcard product lines.

Diva Server

Diva Server is a range of telecomms products for voice, speech, conferencing and fax. It supports T1
Digital Signal 1

Digital signal 1 is a T-carrier signaling scheme devised by Bell Labs. DS1 is a widely used standard in telecommunications in North America and Japan to transmit voice and data between devices....
/E1
E-carrier

In digital telecommunications, where a single physical wire pair can be used to carry many simultaneous voice conversations, worldwide standards have been created and deployed....
; SS7
SS7

SS-7 can stand for:* Signaling System 7, a set of telephone signaling protocols.* The R-16 missile, with NATO reporting name SS-7 Saddler....
; ISDN and conventional phone line (PSTN
Public switched telephone network

The public switched telephone network is the network of the world's public circuit switching telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the network of the world's public Internet protocol-based packet switching networks....
). As of 2008 Eicon Host Media Processing
Host Media Processing

Host Media Processing or HMP is a design model in telecommunications systems that involves the use of software solutions to perform voice processing functions where dedicated Digital Signal Processors were previously required....
 products, "software adapters" that provide VoIP
Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over Internet Protocol networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched Computer network....
 capability for applications, are available.

Diva Server is used in VoiceXML
VoiceXML

VoiceXML is the World Wide Web Consortium's standard XML format for specifying interactive voice dialogues between a human and a computer. It allows voice applications to be developed and deployed in an analogous way to HTML for visual applications....
 speech servers; SMS gateways; fax and unified messaging and call recording and monitoring.

Diva Client

Diva products are connectivity products for remote access for the home and for remote and mobile workers. They are mostly ISDN or combined ISDN and dialup modem
Modem

Modem is a peripheral device that modulation an analog carrier wave Signal to encode digital information, and also demodulation such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information....
s. In the past Eicon produced ADSL and Wifi
WIFI

WIFI is a radio station broadcasting a Variety radio format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA. The station is currently owned by Forsythe Broadcasting....
 equipment, but these areas have become dominated by far-eastern manufacturers.

Eiconcard

The Eiconcard connects legacy X.25
X.25

X.25 is an ITU-T standard network layer protocol for Packet switched network wide area network communication. An X.25 WAN consists of Packet switching nodes as the networking hardware, and leased lines, Plain old telephone service connections or ISDN connections as physical links....
 systems for tasks such as credit card authorization, SMS
SMS

SMS or sms may refer to:...
, and satellite communications. The Eiconcard has been produced since the company was founded in 1984, and continues to be available.

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